Here’s what we’re reading today:

#Putin demanded #Ukraine leave swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which #Russia never fully seized, in exchange for pockets of Sumy and Kharkiv.

#Moscow wants sanctions eased, recognition of Crimea as Russian, Ukraine’s #NATO bid dropped.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/outline-emerges-putins-offer-end-his-war-ukraine-2025-08-17/

Si es real es bastante acojonante.

#Russia started deploying a new attack tactics on #Ukraine military units - in #Mikolaiv unknown perpetrators offered a woman with a child large amount of money for “delivering a package to soldiers”.

She was expected to leave the package to soldiers and then leave, confirming delivery by messaging an agreed number. When she only approached the soldiers the package exploded, killing herself and three soldiers from mine disposal unit. The bomb was of course remotely controlled and the woman was from the beginning planned to be killed. She left a young child in a hotel where she stayed.

If that scenario sounds a bit familiar it’s because it is, that’s precisely one of the methods ISIS employed.

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Photos of two men and one woman in Ukrainian uniforms with black ribbons - these are the sappers who got killed in the attack